Medingen (Ottendorf-Okrilla)

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Medingen
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 47 ′ 23 ″  E
Height : 167 m above sea level NN
Incorporation : January 1, 1999
Postal code : 01458
Area code : 035205
Medingen Church

Medingen is part of the Ottendorf-Okrilla community , part of the Bautzen district in Saxony . Medingen is located in the far west of this district and is about 20 kilometers north of Dresden city ​​center .

Radeburg Würschnitz Laußnitz
Berbisdorf Neighboring communities Ottendorf-Okrilla
Marsdorf Weixdorf Hermsdorf

history

The place on the Große Röder was first mentioned in 1289 as part of the personal name "Henricus miles dictus de Medegowe", which is why it can be assumed that there was a manor house in Medingen at that time. In 1445 there was an outbuilding in the village, 100 years later a manor , from which Medingen Castle developed. Medingen already had a Catholic parish church around 1500 . In 1539 and 1540 the congregation became Lutheran and the Reformation moved into this church building . The interior has been adapted to the new teaching. In 1658 carpenters erected a roof turret with a bell chair in the roof area of ​​the Medingen church. The four main sides of the octagonal belfry were given sound arcades so that the sound produced by the bells can be radiated in all directions . The cross boards prevent rain from getting into the bell cage . A few years later, in 1673, two clocks with an hour finder were installed below the bell cage . These are the predecessors of today's.

In 1755 the first school was inaugurated on today's Hauptstraße 2. In Saxony , the development of their northern and eastern neighboring state Prussia was followed very closely, and the more progressive development was recognized by the general compulsory education in Prussia. This was issued by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I in 1717. In Saxony, on the other hand, schooling was not yet compulsory, but it was imperative to have schools in the villages as well.

In 1835 the Saxon government passed the elementary school law with eight years of compulsory education and obliged the communities to maintain the schools. For the small village of Hufen south of Medingen with about 40 inhabitants , having its own school meant a lot of financial expenditure. Therefore, the place was immediately incorporated by Medingen and the Hufen children attended the Medingen school. The school building was soon no longer sufficient for the increasing number of school children and a second, larger school building was built on what is now Hauptstrasse 7. This was used from 1848.

To the south-east of Medingen near the Großer Röder, there was a large, undeveloped area to build a brewery . In order to be able to produce with the modern equipment, a lot of capital was necessary. In addition, the company's founders went public in 1836 and raised 80,000 thalers . It was the first share-based brewery of the sovereign states in the German Confederation .

Medingen Castle

In 1894, after a fire , the mansion was completely renovated as a castle in the neo-baroque style. The owners had changed many times in the past and the frequent changes of owners remained.

In 1901, the residents of Medingen were listed in the address book of the city of Radeburg and its rural communities . However, only those persons who own or rent apartments are listed. Sub-tenants and family members are not listed. Medingen did not yet have street names , only house numbers for all buildings .

In 1917 the large bronze bell was removed from the bell cage of the church (building) and given to be melted down for war purposes. The German military leaders weren't the first to believe that if the bronze material of church bells can be melted down for war purposes, the war can be won. More than 200 years ago, the Russian Tsar Peter the Great had church bells melted down after losing his artillery in the Battle of Narva in the Great Northern War. From this he had over 200 cannons poured and took up the fighting against Charles XII. (Sweden) up again.

Medinger Chronicle

In 1924 the Medingen church received two cast steel bells from the Bochumer Verein , which had already been cast in 1922. The sound quality of the cast steel bells was much lower than that of the former bronze bells.

On May 7, 1945, Soviet troops came into the place. They entered the village from the northwest . The Red Army had bypassed the fortified Dresden area to the north and came from the direction of Würschnitz and Radeburg .

On June 30, 1946, a referendum took place in Saxony on the expropriation of Nazi and war criminals. The question was "Do you agree to the law on the transfer of businesses of war and Nazi criminals into the property of the people ?" Before the vote to referendum the newly formed had Socialist Unity Party (SED) their propaganda apparatus with posters and radio advertising fully utilized to a high agreement be reached. Many Medingen residents agreed, just like 2.7 million voters (77.7%) in Saxony voted “Yes”.

In the 1990s, the mayor Birgit Pfützner created a Medinger chronicle with Steffen Bartko and Harri Pawlaseck . 20 association members for local history and village development as well as 50 other people contributed to this chronicle.

Population development

year 1819 1835 1840 1871 1882 1890 1900 1910 1939 1964 1977 1990 1994 1998
Residents 330 490 542 577 527 676 736 751 1284 1582 1430 1188 1307 2262

From 1835 with residents of Hufen.

The decline in 1882 compared to 1871 was due to poor working conditions. Many Medingers had to run to work in Dresden and moved to the city forever.

Medingen has been part of Ottendorf-Okrilla since January 1st, 1999.

The mayor of Medingen is currently (2019) René Edelmann.

Monument protection, sights and photographs

In September 1973, the Culture Department of the Dresden District Council in Medingen placed the following 3 objects under monument protection :

  • Manor house with the entire park (as a whole)
  • church
  • Half-timbered building at Hauptstrasse 3 (old rectory) from 1650

Today (2019) in Medingen with the monument protection area Ortlage, the church grounds, the mill complex and the manor with manor park 4 factories are designated as cultural monuments . Furthermore, there are around 20 individual buildings in the list of monuments as buildings that shape the village . See the list of cultural monuments in Ottendorf-Okrilla

There are relatively few older lithographs, paintings, postcards and photos from the town of Medingen (Ottendorf-Okrilla). These should not be confused with the town of the same name, Medingen, which was incorporated into the town of Bad Bevensen in 1972.

In 1841, the Dresden publishing director Hermann Schmidt moved a church gallery from Saxony. This includes the view of Medingen, which can be seen on the cover of the chronicle. The church with the extension to the north can be seen on the right in the picture. This picture is included in the Central Directory of Antiquarian Books (ZVAB).

An old colored clay lithograph from 1854 also exists in the Central Directory of Antiquarian Books (ZVAB). The view of the place is the same as the picture in the church gallery. So the eastern view of the town with the manor seen from the north and the Great Röder in front . The editor of this album of the manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony was Gustav Adolf Pönicke.

In 1898 the first postcards and multi-view cards of Medingen appeared, where the text had to be written on the view side.

Many of the photographs in the book of the Medinger Chronik of the members of the Heimatverein are quite interesting. Especially those of the school and the class photos as well as the photos with the means of transport of the time are informative.

In 1952, the photographers Erich Höhne and Erich Pohl from Dresden in Medingen created a series of photos about starch refinement and a series of work in the testing equipment factory. These are available in the Deutsche Fotothek.

In 1987, the photographer H. Reinecke documented paper production in the Medingen plant of the pulp and paper combine. These are also available in the Deutsche Fotothek.

It was not until 1997 that the photographer Jana Stachowski created numerous photographs in good gray scale quality (black and white) of Medingen and made them available to the photo library.

landscape

Hiking sign on the Marsdorfer Rundweg

Medingen and the surrounding area are shaped by the valley of the Großer Röder, by forest areas in the north and agricultural areas in the south. In the forest area Laußnitzer Heide is the nature reserve " Moorwald am Pechfluss bei Medingen ".

6 hiking trails touch Medingen and these are:

  • Medinger Rundweg I length = 3.5 km (diagonal yellow stripe - description on cycling and hiking guide Ottendorf-Okrilla can be downloaded as pdf (14.3 MB))
  • Medinger Rundweg II length = 7.8 km (green dot on a white background - description on cycling and hiking guide Ottendorf-Okrilla can be downloaded as pdf (14.3 MB))
  • Marsdorfer Rundweg Length = 8 km (yellow point on a white background description on tour 076 Marsdorfer Rundwanderweg brunnen-wandern-dresden.de)
  • Ottendorfer Keulenberg hiking trail length = 16 km (green stripes)
  • Röder hiking trail length = 24 km (yellow stripe marking). The signpost with the destination Großdittmannsdorf is on Würschnitzer Straße and the Wiesenweg near the Großer Röder is very worthwhile. (Description on petra-und-peter.de/petrasblog)
  • Way of St. James (shell symbol St. James Way)

Transport links

With the inauguration of the narrow-gauge railway from Klotzsche to Königsbrück in 1883, today's Ottendorf-Okrilla-Süd station was named Cunnersdorf near Medingen. The distance from the Medinger church to this train station was 3 km.

Today Medingen can be reached by motor vehicle via the Marsdorf or Radeburg motorway junction on the A 13 or via the Hermsdorf motorway junction on the A 4.

Bus route 308 runs between Dresden-Klotzsche and Radeburg via Medingen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1999

literature

  • Dresdner Heide, Pillnitz, Radeberger Land (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 27). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1976.
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Medingen. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 37. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Grossenhain (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1914, p. 161.
  • Medinger Chronik under the direction of Steffen Bartko with articles by association members for local history and village development Medingen, Lößnitz Druck GmbH 2000

Web links

Commons : Medingen  - collection of images, videos and audio files